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Oh Manfred that is soooo cute! ....the car, the caravan, the fashions (not the dirt track). What a dinky little caravan.
Heather
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Heather that was top of the line way back in the dark ages.
Hey Manny.
Bob
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Re: When the Nullabour was a dirt track ...
Struth Manfred when that was made you wern't long out of nappys 1958 star model ford customline Grandads was two tone green I use to us it tow my horse float around to the rodeos
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Spot on Bill, Star model. I think the whole rig cost about 8 or 9 hundred pounds (from a flawed memory).
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Re: When the Nullabour was a dirt track ...
Mannie that’s back when the Nullarbor was a nine day trip and a shower with a gallon of beer at each end.
I remember it well.
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I remember it well.
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Re: When the Nullabour was a dirt track ...
I think we did it in about three or four Dave, from Norseman to Ceduna, unreliable water tanks along the way. The highlight for me was Madura Pass - about two miles of sealed road and a break in the landscape - very pretty. ... and I still remember those bloody corrugations ...
The semis would load up on the train at Port Augusta for the trip and drive off at Kalgoorlie. I did one trip with a mate and the carriages were straight out of a Western cowboy flick. No sleepers. Just stiff leather upholstered bench seats and you had a little kitchenette to do your own cooking. No guard carriage either as I recall. You could walk out to the end of the carriage and see the miles of line disappearing over the (flat) tree-less horizon ...
Was definitely the best train trip I have ever taken ... Driving back, by comparison, was boring.
The semis would load up on the train at Port Augusta for the trip and drive off at Kalgoorlie. I did one trip with a mate and the carriages were straight out of a Western cowboy flick. No sleepers. Just stiff leather upholstered bench seats and you had a little kitchenette to do your own cooking. No guard carriage either as I recall. You could walk out to the end of the carriage and see the miles of line disappearing over the (flat) tree-less horizon ...
Was definitely the best train trip I have ever taken ... Driving back, by comparison, was boring.
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You do have a flawed memory Manfred, if you bought in 66-67 it would have been dollars...not quids!...
Ross
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Maybe. Even though the changeover occurred on the 14th of February 1966 people still thought in 'Pounds' and worried about the transition to kilometres and kilos ...
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... there was also a great debate about the Government diddling us out of a 'penny' in the changeover from SIX pence to FIVE cents ... a few mathematical midgets would show, on paper, how the Govt stood to make a fortune from this secret tax ...